Places raeavramenko Wants to Go

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.